, the russian government of all people, right? asks the u.s. government, the fbi to take a closer look at this guy because they suspect he has very intense islamic radical ties. fbi opens a file on him. goes and talks to him, interviews him, closes the file, says there's no evidence. >> neil: what can they do? understand they have suspicions, seems weird. what do you do? >> probably couldn't do anything at that point but there was a fail that existed on him after that initial interview and after that foreign government had called our attention to him. in the boston area where he was living. then the situation comes home because then he goes to russia january last year, stays six months. we know during athlete time he went into chechneya and possibly met with one of the top islamic terrorists who since dodd in a shootout with russian police, about met with him six times in a mosque. so as recently then as six months ago, november of last year, once again, you had russian intelligence calling the fbi's attention to this guy, saying,